Reminds me of high school. The jocks (mathletes) would stuff me into server closets because I used nano instead of vi. Popular girls would laugh at me because I didn’t know about tab complete until junior year. Bad times.
My preference is VIM with gasp mouse features enabled. Blasphemous, I know.
I was using a command line and modifying games I typed in out of a magazine in like, 4th grade. Also not normal.
I’m with you, I was writing programs in BASIC for ten years before I touched a boob
In 5th grade I couldn’t find the internet explorer icon. The mousepad was full of icons but no internet explorer.
I don’t think there were enough C64’s produced for it to be “normal”.
I was coding Fortran on punched cards then, I didn’t know anyone with a computer at home then - they were still expensive hobbies. The Commodore was certainly part of opening it up, but damn few people had them.
I was definitely looked at as unusual at the time for doing any kind of “computer stuff”.
in the mid 80s, the c64 was the best selling computer (afaik, still is to this day, the single best-selling model ever), sold like 2m+ units a year, outsold even PCs and apple, and had ~ 40% market share.
it was cheap, it had lots of software, and was accessible–selling at discount retailers instead of just computer stores and shops.
yea. it was ‘normal’.
abnormal would have been an outlier like a trs80 or ti99/4a instead of one of the ‘big three’ of the day.
Nothing taught me more about networking than our LAN parties. Even the least computer literate in our friend group knows how to set up a small network without DHCP.
The title of this post seems deranged and nonsensical. No idea what it’s supposed to mean. The post itself? Pressing the fuck out of X.
It’s a reference to a Tumblr meme, “spiders georg”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiders_Georg?wprov=sfla1
Thank you. Sometimes I feel like I’m the only person in the fediverse to know nothing about Tumblr.
When I was six, the idea of a personal computer was science fiction.
